Talk:EXistenZ

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The game in the surface world is named transCendenZ. The world itself does not differ much from deeper levels, so it's pretty obvious it was meant to be just another level of virtual reality. I admit one cannot be sure though :-). This is very dickish indeed. --matusz 10:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

lolz, what a pathetic movie Tuncrypt 04:43, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Dickish by any means 2 Bizarre 3 Original Research 4 B-class 5 Karl Jasper and Existenz

[edit] Dickish by any means

No opportunity to mention the "Perky Pat"-cornflakes box in the article. It DEFINITELY is a reference to Dick. 195.46.247.21 (talk) 17:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bizarre

If anyone can justify what an arbitrary reference to a Landrover has anything to do with the substance of the plot or production of this film, please feel free to explain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.111.243.7 (talk) 06:14, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Original Research

Gonna be bold and whack some original research off the main page; the original author (or later editor) seems to have wandered into interpreting the movie based on personal opinion, rather than summarizing the plot or presenting verifiable, referenced interpretations. --MattShepherd 14:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] B-class

I've done a bit of work to this article and comparing to other articles of start class, and b-class, I think it is a b-class article now. --Spazm 14:41, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you that the article is slightly more B-Class than Start. However, it should be better, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines for ideas on how to bring it up. Also, for future reference, the class= field is case-sensitive, so please capitialize when filling it in. Cbrown1023 20:23, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

ok thanks I never changed the class field before. I looked over the style guidelines and made a few changes. I will try to edit it more if i can. Spazm 15:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Pardon mon butting in, but is anybody going to mention that Pikul's name is surely a reference to PiHKAL (q.v.)? --Cdavis999 10:57, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Heh. Gotta ref? —Viriditas | Talk 11:05, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

It seems reasonable that Pikul is a reference to PiHKAL, but the only thing i can find about it is a post on a mesg board, [1] with is hardly a reference we can use. Maybe you can find a better one? Spazm 16:32, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, folks. I don't have a ref. It was just something that struck me when I first saw the film - as it did, apparently, the guy on the Msg board. I assumed, in fact, that Ted's surname was spelled that way.

Perhaps the only thing that can be done with this tiny quantum of gossip is a one-liner like "Ted Pikul's name may be a reference to etc. etc". Not sure where it might go, though - if at all. --Cdavis999 23:13, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

If it's true, we should be able to find more information about it. Have you checked any of the interviews with Cronenberg? That's a good place to start. I'll gladly help you look through the search indexes. There's a lot of really obscure (but notable) academic film journals that may have discussed this. You've done a great job bringing this to the attention of the active editors. —Viriditas | Talk 23:25, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Karl Jasper and Existenz

______Why no mention of Karl Jasper and his concept of Existenz? I find it interesting that there is no connection according to wiki and imdb, but clearly they raise similar philosophical issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.4.229.114 (talk) 00:09, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I thought the link was already there but it wasnt, so i added a link to Existentialism Spazm 12:14, 1 October 2007 (UTC)